Synonyms for beneficence
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : buh-nef-uh-suh ns |
| Phonetic Transcription : bəˈnɛf ə səns |
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Définition of beneficence
Origin :- "quality of being beneficent, kind, charitable," mid-15c., from Latin beneficentia "kindness, generosity," a back-formation from beneficentior (see beneficent).
- noun donation
- noun benevolence
- Frugality is not only the basis of quiet, but of beneficence.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- The time has come when beneficence, to be real, must operate scientifically, not emotionally.
- Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
- We must transform it into beneficence, and its opposite into the idea of maleficence.
- Extract from : « Diderot and the Encyclopdists » by John Morley
- So he took them, and kissed the hands of the king, thanking him for his beneficence, and departed.
- Extract from : « The Arabian Nights » by Unknown
- Lucienne is yours, Madame, for was it not your beneficence which gave it to me?
- Extract from : « Memoirs of the Comtesse du Barry » by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
- He has raised us to partake, as it were, in the ubiquity of his own beneficence.
- Extract from : « A History of American Christianity » by Leonard Woolsey Bacon
- His unswerving belief in the beneficence of God was most beautiful, most touching.
- Extract from : « Old Familiar Faces » by Theodore Watts-Dunton
- Water, the freezing of, illustrates the beneficence of God, 321-323.
- Extract from : « Popular Education » by Ira Mayhew
- Freezing of water, law of, illustrates the beneficence of God, 221-223.
- Extract from : « Popular Education » by Ira Mayhew
- He is admired on account of his prowess and forgiven on account of his beneficence.
- Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
Antonyms for beneficence
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